Introduction

This Scottish Government report adds value to equality data
published on Scotland's Census website by the National Records of
Scotland (
NRS)
[1]. It brings together relevant data from the census and other
sources to analyse equality in Scotland. It is designed to be used
by policy makers to evidence policy, target services and help
tackle discrimination.

This analysis focuses on the Scotland level 'cross-tab' equality
tables released throughout 2014 by the National Records of Scotland
(
NRS) and
builds on the Scottish Government's 'Analysis of Equality Results
from the 2011 Census'
[2], released on 14
th October 2014.

Although these chapters provide the main focus for the analysis,
other protected equality characteristics such as age and gender are
also included. This paper focuses on national level results;
however it may be possible to access equality data at lower levels
of geography through the
NRS Census
website
[3].

Throughout the paper data labels have been added to the charts
to aid interpretation. These show a value where there is enough
space to do so. However where a proportion is less than 3 per cent
it will generally not be displayed. The full range of figures and
percentages are available in this report's accompanying excel
tables.